Description
The Australian Aboriginal experience resonates with the histories of many dispossessed peoples. The connections between historical injustices and present-day addition, crime, social decline, and economic underdevelopments have been increasingly asserted. "Survival" has both pathological as well as ennobling connotations. Many indigenous communities have endergone cultural, emotional and spiritual trauma which has left them stripped to the core. The miracle of post-colonial survival deserves documentation so that we might chart an informed course towards social regeneration. This work aims to document testimonies of Aboriginal and Native American survival, to analyse the historical links and contemporary cultural expressions of this survival, to describe current psycho-social needs of ailing communities, and to consider how these can be translated into recovery-motivated responses.
